Every single day, over 6 billion GS1 barcodes are scanned around the world.

In Canada, more than 80 retailers, online sellers and other product distributors, including Amazon, major national, local and regional sellers require that all products they carry have a GS1 Global Trade Item Number (or GTIN, the series of numbers you see under a barcode). Only GS1 barcodes ensure globally unique identifiers for every product being sold anywhere in the world.

A unique barcode is required for every variation of your product, which means you need a unique barcode for every size, flavour and variation (such as low-fat or sugar-free) of your product.

Not sure how many barcodes you need? Our easy-to-use GTIN Estimator helps you quickly estimate how many GTINs you'll need for your product, and once you have your GTINs, you'll be able to create your barcodes using GS1 Canada's Barcode Generator tool.

A subscription to GS1 Canada provides you with the global standard GTINs – the numbers you need to create barcodes - you'll need to start doing business in Canada.

Starting and managing a small business can be overwhelming. Through industry collaboration and expertise gained over 40 years, GS1 Canada helps remove confusion or doubt around how to start doing business with Canadian retailers and distributors. This expert knowledge and guidance help you bring your products to market quickly and efficiently and is with you throughout your product journey.

As a neutral industry-directed association, GS1 Canada has a robust governance structure with a variety of boards, councils, committees and workgroups made up of industry experts and senior executives across Canada’s business landscape representing businesses of all sizes and scale.

This ensures that all GS1 Canada solutions are directed by industry needs, ensuring that the product data and images you provide meets Canadian trading partner requirements and government compliance, helping to optimize visibility for your products, maximize your sales opportunities and run your small business as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible.

With more and more Canadian consumers turning to online shopping, being ready to sell your products online is more important than ever before. Product visibility on online platforms helps increase awareness for your brand and maximize your sales opportunities.

GS1 Canada provides the ecommerce data and image content major Canadian retailers like Walmart, Loblaw, Sobeys and Metro require for online listings, streamlining the process and removing any doubt about what content to provide.

Are you on your way to becoming an Amazon Seller? If you’re planning to sell your products on Amazon.ca, you’ll need to have a GS1 GTIN (Global Trade Item Number).

By ensuring that all products they sell have a GS1 GTIN, Amazon Canada can guarantee product authenticity, reducing the possibility of counterfeit products and the chance of customers being shipped the wrong items, impacting customer satisfaction and brand reputation.

Each of the over 80 retailers and distributors using ECCnet Registry, Canada’s largest national product registry, require different types of standardized product images and data for their many business needs – including online sales platforms, ordering applications, retail planograms, in-store advertising, promotional flyers and more.

Do you know what your trading partner’s requirements are? GS1 Canada gives you visibility into the types of content each trading partners require, which helps you determine which industry solutions you'll need to grow your business.

Your trading partners may need different types of standardized product images and data for their many business needs - including online sales platforms, retail planograms, in-store advertising and flyers.

GS1 Canada's team of professional product photographers and graphic designers capture globally standardized images and bilingual product data that trading partners count on to meet their important business requirements.

Marketing and Planogram Content Capture

$125/GTIN

eCommerce and Nutritional Content Capture

$140/GTIN

Nutritional, eCommerce, Planogram and Marketing Content Capture

$200/GTIN

Nutritional, eCommerce, Planogram, Marketing and Foodservice Content Capture

$280/GTIN

Foodservice Images

$90-135/GTIN

An intuitive content loading and management tool that features attributes specifically requested by Canadian industry and trading partner-specific listing forms, making it easier to supply trading partners with the product information they need to list new products.

How to Register for ProSYNC

Get started with the following steps:

1. Subscribe to GS1 Canada
   You need to become a GS1 Canada subscriber to access a variety of value-added tools and services, including ProSYNC.
2. Access your myGS1 portal
   Once you become a GS1 Canada subscriber, you can then access the myGS1 portal using your credentials.
3. Click the ProSYNC link
   Under the My Tools section on the myGS1 portal's home page, you should find a ProSYNC link. Click the link.
4. Complete the checklist action items
   When you log into ProSYNC for the first time, you will be presented with a checklist. complete the action items on the checklist to get started on ProSYNC.

If you do not see a ProSYNC link on your myGS1 portal's homepage, please contact us at operations.support@gs1ca.org

GS1 Canada’s one-to-many approach ensures that brand owners, vendors, manufacturers and other data providers can load standardized content once, and then efficiently share with their business partners at the same time from a single location – a single source of truth.

A single source of truth enables retailers, foodservice distributors, operators, and other data recipients to quickly and conveniently access reliable and up-to-date standardized, bilingual product data and images from multiple brand owners from one centralized place – rather than requesting content from each trading partner individually.

This ensures accuracy and consistency while saving significant time and resources.

GS1 Canada’s proven commitment to be the primary source of truth for 100% accurate and complete product content is foundational to all of our solutions and drives the ongoing development of data excellence tools and processes.

Access to the highest level of data quality enables businesses of all sizes and scale to fuel important business processes – helping you save time and money as your business grows.